Support and protector for nursing-bottles.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

W. F. & P. T. CRAIG.

SUPPORT AND PROTECTOR FOR NURSING BOTTLES.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 12. 1904.

Pau Z 77 57 066 IINITED STATES Patented February 28, 1905.

PATENT @FFICE.

WILLIAM F. CRAIG AND PAUL '1. CRAIG, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT AND PROTECTOR FOR NURSING-BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,423, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed July 12,1904. Serial N0. 216,304.

To (Ml w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. CRAIG and PAUL T. CRAIG, citizens of the United States, residing at Taconey Station, Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports and Protectors For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquirea knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a nursingbottle equipped with the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1, the bottle being turned so as to occupy a horizontal position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the protector. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the bottom of the protector inverted. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the support or holder.

Corresponding and like parts are. referred to in the following description and indicated inall the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The nursing-bottle is indicated at 1 and is of usual design, being flattened and of tapering form. The protector is composed of halves or sections 2 and 3, hingedly connected at their lower ends, so as to swing open at their upper ends to admit of placing the bottle 1 in position or removing it when required for replenishing,cleaning, or other purpose.

The sections or halves 2 and 3 are of similar formation, each being constructed of wire bent into the form substantially as shown to approximate the outlet of the bottle 1. A catch 4 holds the upper ends of the sections together when closed about the bottle and is pivotally connected to a side wire of one section and is adapted to embrace the upper portion of the other section and to engage with the opposite side wire of the section to which the catch is pivoted. The pivotal end of the catch is bent to provide a loop, as shown at 5, and the members of said loop are bent to provide eyes, through which a side wire of the section 2 passes. The opposite end of the catch is bent ter facilitating the manipulation of the catch.

Each section of the protector comprises an upper bow 8, a lower bow 9, side wires 10, a lower straight member 11, and vertical and horizontal elements12 and 13. The bows 8 and 9, the side members 10, and the lower straight member 11 are formed of a single wire bent into the form substantially as shown. A terminal portion of the wire forming one section is bent around the straight members 11, as shown at 14, thence around the short bend formed between the members 11 and 9, as shown at 15. The opposite end portion of said Wire is bent around the straight member 11 at its juncture with the side member 10, as shown at 16, thence around the two straight members 11, as shown at 17, to pivotally or hingedly connect the sections. The terminal portions of the wire comprising the opposite section are bent around the juncture of the straight. member 11 with the bow 9, as shown at 18. The straight members or wires 11 of the companion sections are placed close together, as indicated most clearly in Figs. 3 and 4, and are pivotally connected by the eyes or coils 14 and 17.

Spring-clips 19 are loosely connected to opposite sides of the protector at a point about midway between theirupper and lower ends. Wire loops 20 have their end portions bent around the side members 10 of the sections and receive the rings or links 21, employed for connecting the clips 19 to the loops. The

legs or side members of the loops 9.0 embrace to provide a hook 6 and a linger-piece 7, the latthe end portions of the horizontal bows or members 13, which prevents vertical displacement thereof upon the side wires or members 10. One clip 19 is connected to one section at one side and the other clip is connected to the other section at the opposite side, thereby bringing the two clips at opposite points and distributing strain about equal upon each of the sections.

The hanger or support is indicated at 22 and is formed of a single wire doubled upon itself and having the folded end bent to provide the hook 23 and having the end portions crimped or formed with a series of bends 24, with which the clips 19 engage. The crimps or bends 24 have approximately horizontal portions 25, which are engaged directly by the clips 19. The hook 23 is adapted to engage over the side of a chair, carriage, or other contrivance receiving the child. The bottle may be raised or lowered with reference to the hanger or support by engaging the clips 19 with corresponding sets of shoulders 25 of the crimps or bends 24. By hav-' ing the clips loosely connected with the protector the bottle is free to swing or may be inverted, so as to be suspended when draining after being washed.

The clips 19 admit of attaching the protector to a pillow, bed-covering, or other supporting means when the hanger 22 is not used. The catch l: is prevented from slipping up or down on its supporting-wire by means of a stop a, provided on the wire. This stop a is preferably arranged between the members of the loop 5 and may consist of a drop of solder or a bend in the wire.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. In protective and suspending means for bottles and the like, the combination of a protector, clips at opposite sides thereof, and a hanger or support having opposite members adapted to make adjustable connection with the aforesaid clips, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, a protector for bottles, clips at opposite sides thereof, and a hanger or support having opposite members provided with a series of bends or crimps to make adjustable connection with said clips, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, a protector for bottles and the like, clips at opposite sides thereof, a

hanger or support having opposite members provided with corresponding crimps orbends, each having an approximately horizontal portion or shoulder for attachment therewith of the aforesaid clips, substantially as described.

4. In combination, a protector for bottles hingedly connected at their lower ends, and

means for connecting the sections at their upper ends when closed,substantiall y as set forth.

7. A protector for bottles and the like composed of similar sections formed of wire and hinged at their lower ends, and a catch having a loop at one end bent around a side member of a section and having a hook and fingerpiece at its opposite end and adapted to operate substantially in the manner specilied.

8. In combination, a protector composed of similar sections formed of wire and hingedly connected, each section having intermediate vertical and horizontal members, loops having their members embracing the intermediate horizontal members and bent around the vertical members of the sections, and clips connected to the sections by means of said loops, substantially as set forth.

9. A protector for bottles and the like comprising similar sections formed of Wire, each section comprising side members, upper andlower bows and lower straight members, the terminal portions of the wires forming the sections being bent around the lower straight members to form hinge connections between the sections, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

VVILLIAh l F. CRAIG. PAUL T. CRAIG.

Witnesses: I

W. H. GERHARD, WILLIAM LooK. 

